Friday, April 16, 2010

Kelly's Visit

As many of you know, Kelly came to visit this week. We have had the pleasure of her company since Tuesday, but unfortunately I have to give her back today. We have had a lot of fun and gotten into a little trouble over the past few days.
We stopped at Ikea on the way back from the Charlotte airport and the trouble began. I know it's early but I bought a crib and changing table. I start fellowship in July and have Internal Medicine boards ($1300, all day test- yuck) in August so I won't have much time towards the end of my pregnancy to do this stuff. Plus I had a willing accomplice. :) So I bought small/simple furniture and Kelly and I assembled it.
Well the crib had these panels that seems to be asking for something more than the design that was already on them. So we found this very soft textured cream yellow fabric and upolstered them. I told you that we got into some trouble- but it turned out really well. The crib looks more expensive and matches the guest room really well. The fabric is almost the exact color of the wall above the chair-rail. We found the most adorable flower lights and installed them on the wall above the changing table. And we found these really cute storage boxes on sale 50% off at Michael's which are now on the bottom shelf of the changing table. It has been a lot of fun decorating and it's starting to look like a nursery. We still have some stuff to do but what a great start!
We did other useful stuff this week too. Kelly helped me clean out the closet in the guest room and get rid of the big wood box that was in there. We re-arranged the furniture to make everything fit and cleaned up as we went. All the while making sure to goof off a little and take frequent breaks. I am posting a few pictures of our handy work below.


7 comments:

  1. How absolutely adorable... you and Kelly did a GREAT job. Love how you altered the crib and those flower lights and the patterned boxes are just sooooooooo cute. I love the pink and brown color combo too... looks fabulous with the walls. Thumbs up ladies!

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  2. Great job! Those flower lights are awesome!

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  3. Wow, The room looks so Adorable..WTG! I love the colors! Very pretty! The Baby is going to Love it!

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  4. The nursery looks great! You two did a wonderful job!

    I love Ikea!

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  5. It looks really nice, you and Kelly did a good job! It looks simple but fancy. I like it!!!! Good thing you got it done when you could and having help is fun, especially with your sister.

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  6. That is really cute! :) Flower lights esp! Shopping for the baby is so much fun! Enjoy it!

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  7. I heard something about you being in "baby jail" but don't see any pics of that! Love the other pics though, including those of the ultrasound!!!

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